Leah Litman

So he had their consent.

So this is an instance where the state is basically saying, we don't have this.

Can you help us out?

And that is consistent with the tradition that the Insurrection Act reflects, which is not using the federal military to overpower state law enforcement when they can handle it.

Exactly.

What's going on in the 1870s?

It's literally the aftermath of the Civil War and the continued rebellion of the former Confederate states.

So, yes, the Insurrection Act is used at that time.

I mean, I guess I just want to emphasize the power of the camera phone because in the short term, you know, it is possible that those cameras could provide evidence in state criminal cases, you know, against officers or in civil litigation against them.

But even if that doesn't happen in the short term, I hold out hope that they would be useful in some sort of accounting process.

For what is going on once we make it through this and whether that is, you know, some equivalent of a truth and reconciliation commission, you know, where we acknowledge, you know, what the Trump administration was doing and the harms, you know, that caused different communities and in the future times when he's exactly power and we kind of wake up from the fever dream.

I'm manifesting.

It's one of my New Year's resolutions.

I don't want people to feel like, oh, I just have my camera or my camera phone.

Is it even worth it?

I do think that that is important.

You should do that.

Beyond that, I think it's tough.

Public shaming sometimes works.

We've also seen the videos of the Minnesota Nice